Pith Number

pith:PWAXZKR5

pith:2025:PWAXZKR5FQOHRLTGOYR6NSF5PM

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An Interval Type-2 Version of Bayes Theorem Derived from Interval Probability Range Estimates Provided by Subject Matter Experts

James Rickards, John T. Rickard, William A. Dembski

arxiv:2509.08834 v1 · 2025-08-29 · cs.AI · physics.comp-ph · physics.data-an · q-fin.CP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PWAXZKR5FQOHRLTGOYR6NSF5PM}

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

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First computed	2026-07-05T12:08:37.588227Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7d817caa3d2c1c78ae667623e6c8bd7b1ae9947109f86e0cd756f7db9f274719

Aliases

arxiv: 2509.08834 · arxiv_version: 2509.08834v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2509.08834 · pith_short_12: PWAXZKR5FQOH · pith_short_16: PWAXZKR5FQOHRLTG · pith_short_8: PWAXZKR5

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/PWAXZKR5FQOHRLTGOYR6NSF5PM \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 7d817caa3d2c1c78ae667623e6c8bd7b1ae9947109f86e0cd756f7db9f274719

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a8fef9bd7b9398ab225bb6c77d5d1298fb8f4101e9b89a14d7b972f5aae07bb7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.comp-ph",
      "physics.data-an",
      "q-fin.CP"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2025-08-29T23:47:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a9a161f3bebba64144d6f8fc6afcc4d138846574475bc0925450f963374b94a4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2509.08834",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}